Will Chase
@willchase.bsky.social
Designer, developer, and data person. Currently: Design at Observable. Formerly leading visual storytelling at Axios, and dataviz design at Fidelity 🏳️🌈 https://www.williamrchase.com/
wrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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In late June, Springer Nature sold Scientific American to LabX Media. I have since decided to step out of my role as a senior graphics editor for the magazine :: #sciart 📊 🧪 :: 🧵 [1/7]
✏️ 🗺️ New release for graticule.org introduces Draw mode. You can now easily draw your own point, line, or polygon geometries!
Minnesota? More like MEGAsota. Vertex editing now available in graticule.org Check the release notes for details: docs.graticule.org/release-notes/
🗺️ 📣 I've been off bluesky for a while, but popping in to announce Graticule, my new app for making maps! graticule.org It's a work-in-progress but I'd love to hear any feedback. What features would you like to see next?
AMA about my love of maps observablehq.com/blog/maps-an... thanks @allisonhorst.bsky.social for the cosy chat
We can always talk about maps
Fil Rivière, Data Visualization Engineer at Observable, describes his path into data visualization, what he likes in a map, what’s hard about mapmaking, and why he’s asking if we need a “slow cartogra...
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I've often wanted to be able to easily reference what farms are growing medicinal herbs with a focus on sustainable + regenerative practices. As a designer, I also thought it'd be fun to present that info in a searchable, interactive map. So as a side project, I created herbatlas.fyi #dataviz
Herb Atlas
Herb Atlas is an interactive map that highlights small, human-scale farms growing medicinal herbs with a commitment to sustainable farming practices.
herbatlas.fyi
First post! My latest from @visuals.axios.com: How a ransomware attack works This was a fun project to build. Probably the most CSS animations I've forced into a single page ✨ Words by @samsabin.bsky.social, illustration by Aïda Amer, dev by me. www.axios.com/visuals/comp...
How a gang's takedown revealed their playbook behind ransomware attacks
One of the most devastating cyberattacks plaguing companies today has been around for a decade — and its perpetrators have hardly had to innovate to stay profitable.
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Cool color-mixing paper using the Kubelka–Munk model (which incorporates light absorption & scattering) to simulate real life paint behavior in software: scrtwpns.com/mixbox.pdf It would be interesting to play with to generate #dataviz palettes. via @jscarto.bsky.social & Jack Morris 📊🎨
![Diagram with three sets of color ramps comparing real life paint mixing with digital color models. The first two compare magenta to white and blue to white, the third blue to yellow.
Caption 1: Real paints gain saturation and shift in hue when mixed with white, as exhibited by Quinacridone Magenta (left) and Phthalo Blue (right). These effects are reproduced faithfully by the K–M model, unlike RGB, where colors tend to lose saturation when mixed with white.
Caption 2: Mixing Cobalt Blue and Hansa Yellow in real life vs. in RGB, RYB [Gos- sett and Chen 2004], Subtractive, Subtractive-Additive [Simonot and Hébert 2014] and K–M model. The ad-hoc approaches are unable to match the K–M’s ability to predict the outcome of two pigments mixing together.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c6b4jhahjjn75k4k2rvhsvyh/bafkreifkpg4gc7uf7eovyqsw6ygrtrdi7na64gdguc5ddjesltaeryxbfi)
🌟 Professional news 🌟 Today I joined @observablehq.com as a UX Designer to help build the next generation of awesome data + viz products! I've been a fan and user of Observable since the beginning, so I'm very excited to be a part of the journey and join such an inspiring team 🤗
Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation. Made with Plot, based on a great tutorial by Fil: observablehq.com/@jo... Data from TerraClimate (1958-present). #cartography #maps #mapping #climate #dataviz #SciArt
Have you seen the best of Axios Visuals 2024 yet? Come for the bitcoin ETF saga timeline, stay for an investigation into how many cupholders different countries put on their boats, an analysis of cicada brood sizes, and dancing Nerds. graphics.axios.com/2024-visuals...
project 1: Map Designer, a #dataviz tool and @figma.com plug in that simplifies the process creating and customizing maps in Figma! Had a lot of fun learning how to translate d3-geo's svg paths into Figma's vector networks. try it out and let me know what you think! www.figma.com/community/pl...
CEO Unveils Bold New Plan To Undo Damage From Last Year’s Bold New Plan theonion.com/ceo-unveils-...
Undershirt coordinated with the orange, belt cinching the jumpsuit to build a snatched silhouette. Someone’s been going to the Anna Delvey school of prison styling
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y agoseems a bit dramatic
We have the Juicy Lucy, a cheeseburger with cheese on the inside of the patty. Why? So you can get squirted in the face with boiling hot cheese on your first bite, and said cheese can then drool out onto your plate leaving you with a dry cheeseless burger!
Jon Bois@jonbois.bsky.social · 2y agomost places in the us have a bad/boring joke food that they like to fool everyone else into thinking they like. for example louisville has the hot brown, an extremely off-putting meal no one there ever eats but tricks visitors into trying. if your community doesn't have a shitty joke food, start one
End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁 https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/ and tell us: what were your favorites?
congrats to @pinakographos.bsky.social & @awoodruff.bsky.social for launching mapartists.org "A shopping guide offered by the Independent Map Artists"
Independent Map Sellers
mapartists.org
Ok, I'm doing this Friday at 11am Pacific on the @rfortherestofus.com YouTube channel. youtube.com/live/mHyjToT...
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David Keyes@dgkeyes.com · 2y agoThinking about doing some live streaming next week to recreate this Financial Times graph in ggplot. #rstats
Surely this will be less popular than the dog tweet, but I've also done some Cool Work during my Twitter hiatus. Including this story about wildfire smoke that features a scrolling animated smoke map www.axios.com/us-climate-c...
Will Chase@willchase.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat have I been up to since my Twitter hiatus? Well for starters, I obtained a miniature polar bear. She is a menace to society and I love her.
What have I been up to since my Twitter hiatus? Well for starters, I obtained a miniature polar bear. She is a menace to society and I love her.
It's baccckkkk! We're excited to announce the 8th annual Pudding Cup where we pick the best visual and data-driven stories of 2024. 📅 Deadline: Saturday, Nov. 30 📢 Winners announced: the week of Dec. 9 💸 Up to 3 winners each get $1,500 pudding.cool/pudding-cup/
The Pudding Cup
The Pudding's annual picks for the best visual and data-driven stories
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I learned lots about mucosal immunity while working on @sutherlandphd.bsky.social’s article “New Nasal Vaccines Offer Better Protection from COVID and Flu—No Needle Required.” Here’s a peek at how the graphics plan developed. www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-... 🧪🐡 #SciArt
